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Academic Year 2024/2025

Date Speaker University Paper Title
January 22, 2025 Stefano Giglio Yale University Biodiversity Risk
February 12, 2025 Enrico Onali Bristol University
February 19, 2025 Anastasiya Shamshur King's College London Modelling facility-level emissions data in corporate finance: A cautionary tale
February 26, 2025 Ruijun Bu Liverpool University Nonparametric estimation of large spot volatility matrices for high-frequency financial data
March 5, 2025 Christopher Pelger University of Passau Constructing users of sustainability reporting – The case of the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards
March 26, 2025 Lakshmanan Shivakumar London Business School
March 26, 2025 Claudia Custodio Imperial College London Credit Access and Market Access: Evidence from a Portuguese Credit Guarantee Scheme
April 23, 2025 Jennifer Castle Oxford University
April 30, 2025 Fahad Saleh Florida University An economic model of the L1-L2 interaction
May 7, 2025 Monika Tarsalewska Exeter University
May 14, 2025 Patrick Gagliardini Universita' della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
May 21, 2025 Fabio Braggion Tilburg University

Academic year 2024/25

Date Speaker University Paper title
October 2, 2024 Radu Tunaru Henley Business School, University of Reading Model risk and regulation: Reconciling theory and practice
October 9, 2024 Chendi Zhang University of Exeter Business School Temperature sensitivity, mispricing, and predictable returns
October 16, 2024 Philippe Mueller Warwick Business School Uncovered interest parity in high frequency
October 23, 2024 Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe London School of Politics and Economics Startup employees’ career paths: Evidence from business accelerators
October 30, 2024 Ana Beatriz Galvao Bloomberg Economics / CEPR Bond risk premia and economic data news
November 13, 2024 Davide Avino Liverpool University Climate change uncertainty, interest rates and corporate investment
November 20, 2024 Vesa Pursiainen University of St.Gallen Retail Customer Reactions to Private Equity Acquisitions
November 27, 2024 Maggie Chen Cardiff University Can machine learning models better volatility forecasting? A combined method
December 4, 2024 Jana Fidrmuc Warwick Business School Shareholder activism: A blessing or affliction for incumbent CEOs?
December 11, 2024 Giota Papadimitri Southampton University Collateralized lending: the role of future time reference in languages 

Academic year 2023/24

Date Speaker University Paper title
October 4, 2023 Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj Warwick Business School Blockchain currency markets
October 11, 2023 Zhenya Liu EM Normandie Maximum likelihood estimation and inference on the conditional factor model
October 18, 2023 Renee Adams Said Business School - Oxford University Shareholderism around the world: Corporate purpose, culture and law
October 25, 2023 Jungsub Lee Seoul National University ESG Lending
November 8, 2023 Oleksandr Talavera Birmingham University Vocal communicating with voice emotion: Reciprocal behaviour in manager-analyst interaction. 
November 15, 2023 Sumudu Watugala Kelley School of Business at Indiana University LTCM redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading and funding fragility
November 22, 2023 Chris Adcock Sheffield University Ex-post properties of portfolio betas and other measures of performance and risk
November 29, 2023 Chao Zhang Oxford University Graph neural networks for forecasting multivariate realized volatility with spillover effects. 
December 6, 2023 Jonathan Karpoff University of Washington - Foster School of Business The prevalence and price distorting effects of undetected financial misrepresentation: Empirical evidence
January 17, 2024 Shuyuan Qi Central University of Finance and Economics Limit-hitting exciting effects: Modelling jump dependencies in stock markets adhering to daily price-limit rules  
January 24, 2024 Lei Zhao ESCP Business School A market-level tug of war: Asset pricing on ... days
January 31, 2024 Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos Glasgow University The dynamics of entrepreneurial firm exit choice and the IPO valuation premium: Theory and evidence 
February 7, 2024 Peter Zimmerman Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Flash loans: Lending without trust, collateral, or risk
February 14, 2024 Douglas Cumming Florida Alantic University Stock market manipulation and corporate venture capital investments
February 21, 2024 Amit Goyal Lausanne University - Swiss Finance Institute Picking partners: Manager selection in private markets
February 28, 2024 Felix Irresberger Durham University
March 6, 2024 Daniel Rabetti National University of Singapore Financial and informational integration through oracle networks
March 13, 2024 Dimitrios Stafylas University of York A new measure for investors’ private information
March 20, 2024 Loriana Pellizon Goethe University and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Quantitative easing, the repo market, and the term structure of interest rates

Academic year 2022/23

Date Speaker University Paper title
Wednesday 5 October 2022 Elvira Sojli University of New South Wales Measuring advanced manufacturing and process innovation: Applications to productivity and growth
Wednesday 12 October 2022 Sonny Biswas University of Bristol Can information imprecision be valuable? The case of credit ratings
Wednesday 19 October 2022 Jedrzej Bialkowski University of Canterbury Information quality and return predictability: Evidence from investor sentiment and the variance risk premium 
Wednesday 26 October 2022 Fan Yu Claremont McKenna College Bond volatility and CDS auctions
Wednesday 2 November 2022 Oguzhan Cepni Copenhagen Business School Geography of housing sentiment:  What does the sentiment tell us about future housing returns?
Wednesday 9 November 2022 Jeffrey Wurgler New York University Policy uncertainty and green investment
Wednesday 16 November 2022 Qingwei Wang Cardiff University These stocks are on fire: The impact of social media on mutual funds’ performance, flows, and trading
Wednesday 23 November 2022 Dong Lou London School of Politics and Economics The day destroys the night, night extends the day: A clientele perspective on equity premium variation
Wednesday 30 November 2022 Francesco D'Acunto Georgetown University How costly are cultural biases? Evidence from FinTech
Wednesday 7 December 2022 Adriana Breccia Risk Control Ltd R&D investment and technological appropriability in a pre-emption model  
Wednesday 18 January 2023 Sarah Wang Warwick University Do financial market developments benefit employees? Evidence from the derivatives markets 
Wednesday 25 January 2023 Danny McGowan Birmingham University Deposit competition and securitization 
Wednesday 8 February 2023 Michael Goldstein Babson College Do firms set pension discount rates strategically?
Wednesday 22 February 2023 Jesse Wang Lancaster University Does greater public scrutiny hurt a firm's performance?
Wednesday 1 March 2023 Antje Berndt Australian National University Risk aversion in corporate bond markets
Wednesday 15 March 2023 Emmanouil Platanakis Bath University A model-based commodity risk measure on commodity and stock market returns 
Wednesday 22 March 2023 Nan Yang Hong Kong Polytechnic University Betting on bond ratings disagreement
Wednesday 26 April 2023 Ding Chen Sussex University Market risk and/or credit risk: Another look at the variance risk premium
Wednesday 3 May 2023 Omrane Guedhami University of South Carolina Do as I say, not as I do: Tax avoidance by state-owned firms
Wednesday 10 May 2023 Dennis Philip Durham University When prejudice hits home: Racial hate crimes and mortgage credit demand